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Page 10 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15. 1977 Farmers urged to switch crops United Press International LA PAZ, Bolivia — Several hundred coca-leaf farmers from the semi-tropical valleys or “jungas” of Bolivia were summoned recently to a tense and historic meeting in La Paz. Having walked most of the previ ous day to their nearest town and travelled overnight to the capital in open trucks, they were addressed by the minister for agriculture, the chief of narcotics, the head of the new coca registration program and the “campesino” or small farmer coordinator. All four had the same message. Bolivia was being cast as the arch-villain by the western coun tries in their struggle to suppress the international trade in illegal cocaine. As prime producer of coca-leaves material from which the drug is made, Bolivia was being held to blame. Also, it stood to receive $45 million from the United States by the end of next year if it succeeds in implementing a cocoa crop substitu tion program. The greatest fear of the cam- pesinos is that the substitution method used will turn out to be the same as those employed in Thailand and Mexico against the opium- poppy — burning and napaiming. The speakers were at pains to allay this fear. At 50 pesos or $2.50 per kilo, the trouble-free and inde fatigable coca bush is the farmers’ easiest and most profitable crop. Moreover, there is a 3,000-year- old tradition of coca growing in the Andes. One estimate is that coca- chewers in the Peruvian and Boli vian highlands number between eight and ten million. Chewing the coca-leaf is as much a part of working, religious and medical life today as thirty centuries ago. More perhaps, since under the Incas the privilege of chewing was severely restricted to high officials and distinguished individuals. Coca also is still the prime ingre dient in indian medicine. Coca is such an integral part of the Andean way of life that total eradication would be unthinkable. But the government, after years of steady pressure from the United States, has just taken its first step towards cutting down the size of the crop. The crop is estimated at 25,000 tons annually, but nobody has an accurate figure of the amount. Nor can anyone hazard a reasoned guess how much of it is channelled into the illegal cocaine “factories” of Bolivia, though from 50 to 57 per cent is quoted as being likely. Bolivian and American officials have signed an agreement outlining the first stage of an anti-cocaine war. This will be the registration of all coca-farms with details of their size and crops. It will be funded by $4.2 million from the United States. The average Bolivian finds it hard to regard cocaine as his problem. Most campesinos feel the loss of coca is too high a price to pay for $45 million in U.S. aid and the solving of other countries’ social ills. It remains to be seen how far the government of Bolivia can persuade them to move. U.S. embassy files protest Soviets detain American journalist for investigation Serving Luncheon Buffet Sunday through Friday 11:00 A.M. to 1:30 P.M. $3.00 Top Floor of Tower Dining Room Sandwich & Soup Mon. thru Fri. $1.50 plus drink extra United Press International MOSCOW — Soviet authorities yesterday said American journalist Robert Toth, accused of receiving state secrets, was under investiga tion and would not be allowed to leave the Soviet Union. The Soviets also rejected an offi cial U.S. protest against the brief detention of Toth, 48, a corre spondent for the Los Angeles Times, on charges he had received state secrets from a Soviet scientist. A U.S. Embassy official yesterday went to the Soviet Foreign Ministry to register an official protest against the treatment of the veteran Moscow correspondent. A U.S. Embassy spokesman con firmed that the American protest was delivered to the Soviet Foreign Open to the Public^ Now you know Ministry yesterday and the Soviets immediately handed over their own protest against Toth’s conduct. “The Foreign Ministry rejected the protest and gave notice to the embassy that I cannot leave the country,” Toth told Western re porters. “The embassy was told that dur ing a specific period of time I had been engaged in collecting secret information of a political and mili tary character and that I will be summoned for interrogation by the official organs,” he said. Toth was concluding a three-year assignment in Moscow for the Los Angeles Times and had been scheduled to leave the Soviet Union with his family this week. He was arrested Saturday morn ing on a Moscow street and de tained for three hours by Soviet police. He was grabbed by five police men shortly after he met a Soviet parapsychology specialist, Valery Petyukov, at the scientist’s request. Toth said Petyukov had just handed him a story the Soviet scien tist had written to prove the legiti macy of parapsychology, which deals with extrasensory perception (ESP), when policemen grabbed both of them. Although the Soviets have ex pelled American correspondents in the past — as recently as last Feb- bruary when Associated Press corre spondent George Krimsky was or dered out — Toth’s case appeared to be the first time in recent years that a newsman was kept from leav ing. campus activities S' ini a Pi l7 i WEDNESDAY Secretary and Clerical Workshop, Rudder Tower 308, 8:30 a. m. 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Transfer Student Orientafe Rudder Auditorium, 1 p.m, Chess Committee, 206 MSCj p.m. College of Agriculture Students, 225-226 MSC, 7 p.m. Grove Movie, The Candidas, 8:30 p.m. TUESDAY KANM Recruitment meeliij 7:30 p.m., MSC 216M QUALITY FIRST" ^ Rodrigo de Jerez is credited with being the first European to smoke. He is said to have learned from na tives of the West Indies, where he landed with Columbus in 1492. He brought tobacco back to Spain, amazed his friends by smoking but was denounced to the Inquisition by his wife. The Memorial Student Center Summer Program Council presents THE SUMMER Firing squads execu three men in Thaila United Press International BANGKOK, Thailand — Firing squads at dawn today summaiil executed three men accused of leading Cambodian Khmer R< troops in the massacre of 30 Thai villagers and smuggling arms Cambodia. The executions at the Prachin Buri prison, 58 miles easl Bangkok, were ordered and announced by Prime Minister Tam Kraivixien following approval by the cabinet and Tanin’s milito advisory council. They were the fourth, fifth and sixth executions in two raonl under Thai laws that permit the death sentence without trial, other victims included a general accused of leading an abortiveas Lake voir. Some were ol Carolin earlier this year. Tanin said the executions resulted from a four-month investigati Livings into the Khmer Rouge massacre of 30 Thai villagers in two tiny" farming villages near the Thai border with Cambodia last Jan. 5 Merchants Man Buprasert and Somchai Chantra and CamboJi refugee Yu Chak were shot largely on the testimony of a 5-yeaw boy who confessed he guided the 300 Khmer Rouge soldiers »f raided Nong Dor and Kong Kor. 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